Conner is the most accomplished male gymnast America has ever produced. He is
the only American gymnast to win gold medals at every level of national and international
competition. He is a junior national champion, an elite national champion, a Pan
American Games champion, a World Cup champion (the first and still, only, American
to win a gold medal at a World Cup event), a World champion, and finally an Olympic
champion. In 1976, at age 18, he was the youngest member of the U.S. men's gymnastics
team a year in which he captured the inagural American Cup (Nadia Comenici was the
women's champion). He won the 1979 U.S. National all-around championship and subsequestly
took the World Cup championships on the pommel horse and the parallel bars and became
the world champion on the parallel bars. He capped his career at the 1984 Olympics,
helping the U.S. team win an historic team gold medal, and adding another gold medal
with a perfect "10" on the parallel bars. He subsequently married four-time
Olympic champion Nadia Comenici. Conner was inducted in 1987 into the International
Gymnastics Hall of Fame.